Update below: Still no official comments about the “last, best and final” offers delivered to representatives of King Soopers and Safeway staffers on Monday from either the companies or the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7. But a web page for King Soopers employees features the first details of…
A funeral director allegedly tells a family that the county coroner recommended him to bury their twelve-year-old child — when the law prohibits such recommendations. A mortuary embalms a body without the final okay from the family; in the meantime, the family decides to use a different mortuary. A funeral…
Update below: King Soopers and Safeway told United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 reps they’d submit their “last, best and final” offer by the end of yesterday — and they almost missed their own deadline. Just shy of 6 p.m., UFCW rep Laura Chapin confirmed via e-mail that nothing…
Stop by some local blogs. Like these. Cultivator Advertising & Design gets the Denver Egotist’s profile treatment. It’s a graphic display. A computer ate the Nuggets vs. Lakers recap written by Jeremy at Roundball Mining Company. But the clip of Ty Lawson’s unbelievable slam offers ample compensation. 5280’s Jennie Dorris…
Today, King Soopers and Safeway are expected to submit their “last, best and final” offer to grocery workers. Don’t know much about the details yet, or whether the proposal will be notably different from the ones members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 have roundly rejected time…
A trifecta of local blogs worth eyeballing. Kyle at Bronco Talk thinks Peyton Hillis may be the cure the ailing Broncos running game needs. Watch your back, Knowshon. What’s the best thing about Colorado being number eleven in foreclosure activity among states nationally? As 5280’s Michael de Yoanna points out,…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted here: Communications Intern — Denver Mayor’s Office Pay: Unpaid…
Signs that Republic Airways Holdings, owner of Denver-based Frontier Airlines, might move jobs from Colorado to either Milwaukee or Indianapolis have been unavoidable for at least month. Note this October 9 blog, in which Denver Economic Development Corporation executive director Tom Clark sketched out problematic tax issues, as well as…
Aside from the beer-vending machine in the Westword newsroom, this License Plates Nuts & Bolts machine in the state motor vehicle division office at 2736 Welton Street may be the coolest dispensary I’ve seen around town. For $1 buck, you can avoid the aggravation of the hardware store or wherever…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as seen online: Personal assistant to high-profile television personality Pay: Salary is competitive and will…
There’s been a lot of ballot-casting taking place in these parts lately. But the general public didn’t participate in a vote being touted by the Downtown Denver Partnership. Instead, it involved businesspeople who’ve decided to dip into their wallets to help renovate a key stretch of 14th Street, as seen…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every week as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted online: Snow removal Pay: $13 to $35 an hour based on experience and…
This week, we learned that in August, home prices in the Denver area rose for the sixth straight month, and the average was down just 1.9 percent from the same month last year. Given that catastrophes in the housing sector are largely responsible for our long-running recession, do the August…
Denver International Airport received complaints from some airlines on Thursday for allegedly not clearing runways of snow quickly enough — but DIA spokesman Chuck Cannon believes the facility well. “Obviously, things slowed down on Wednesday and Thursday,” he concedes, “but they have to when you have blizzard conditions like we…
On October 20, talks between grocery workers and Safeway about a new contract broke down only a few hours after they’d started up again — and later that week, King Soopers employees were given a letter strongly implying that if Safeway staffers struck, they’d be locked out. It’s a scenario…
A Denver Post story today noted that an unprecedented attempt to score up to $320 million in loans from two federal agencies in order to bankroll the still woefully underfunded Union Station redevelopment could be on the rocks because the project’s managers haven’t been able to get a favorable rating…
Here are some blogs you might enjoy. Jeremy at Roundball Mining Company predicts that the Nuggets will surpass last year’s 54-win mark by four games, declaring, “Yes we can! The sun is out. The seas have parted. The basketball gods are shining upon us!” Keep hope alive! The Denver Egotist…
Last week, the liberal group ProgressNow Colorado created a searchable map designed to help customers of King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons find other places to shop in the event of a grocery-store strike. Shortly thereafter, a letter to King Soopers employees noted that most of those options were nonunion shops…
You know the decision of a business to relocate is a big deal when the state’s governor offers to serve as a de facto publicist, as Bill Ritter did yesterday during the announcement that the German firm SMA Solar Technology AG will be opening a plant in the Denver area…
Yesterday, in the wake of a negotiating breakdown between Safeway and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, King Soopers employees were given a letter attributed to Dave Savage, vice president of retail operations for the firm. The document accuses the union of “recklessly pursuing a course that will lead…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every Thursday as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted online: Part-time trampler in Capitol Hill Pay: $10 to $100 per hour depending…
On October 20, negotiators for grocery workers and Safeway, one of three giant chains whose contracts with union employees in Colorado have expired, sat down for the first time in ages to try and hammer out an agreement. But very little hammering actually took place. “The workers said, ‘Here’s our…
